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25 Mar Jim Thompson: The Entrepreneur Who Singlehandedly Saved Thailand’s Silk Industry—and Then Vanished

Posted at 22:16h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Keith Joseph (1918-1994), member of the British Parliament who served in the Cabinets of three Prime Ministers, was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest friends and advisors. In 1986 he wrote these two sentences that now provide me with the perfect opening for this article: The entrepreneur...

25 Mar Boris Johnson’s two cheers for capitalism

Posted at 22:14h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Boris Johnson saluted fast development of COVID vaccines as a triumph of capitalism, even though he associated, somehow infelicitously, capitalism with greed (on the point, read Eamonn Butler). It is a bit bizarre that Johnson on the one hand sees R&D as a success of the...

25 Mar The unexpected history and miraculous success of vaccines

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My article from Warp News: At a time when the miraculous success of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 has transformed the battle against the pandemic, it is fitting to recall that the general idea behind vaccination was brought to the attention of the western world, not by brilliant...

25 Mar Economic Prosperity Is a Prerequisite for All Other Kinds of Prosperity

Posted at 22:10h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Recently, while reading Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition, written by Ludwig von Mises in the year 1927, I noted a striking passage, right in the beginning on page 4: All that social policy can do is to remove the outer causes of pain and suffering; it can further a...

24 Mar The Business Economics of The Office

Posted at 21:37h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

On this day 16 years ago, the popular show The Office made its television debut, quickly becoming well-known for its irreverent yet insightful takes on office life. In ‘mockumentary’ format, the commonalities and mundanities of day-to-day office life familiar to tens of millions of Americans...

24 Mar There Is No Such Thing as a Public Health Expert

Posted at 21:35h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Since the beginning of COVID Mania, we’ve been told to “listen to the public health experts.” Governments and the corporate media has identified this category to us as individuals (Dr. Fauci, Rachel Levine, Tedros Adhanom, Bill Gates) and groups (CDC, WHO, Gates Foundation, Imperial College,...

24 Mar Bigger Can Be Better, When Governments Step Out of The Way!

Posted at 21:33h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

There’s a growing appetite across industrialized nations to crack down on large firms. In the United States, there are bipartisan efforts to flex the federal government’s anti-monopoly powers against big tech firms. In France, big tech firms were seen as exploitative and a GAFA (Google,...

24 Mar Lockdown Tyranny: A Personal Retrospective

Posted at 21:33h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Over the past year, Americans’ rights and liberties have been ravaged worse than almost anyone expected at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Fearmongering quickly proved the ticket for politicians to seize almost unlimited power. But heavy-handed government decrees were more effective at wrecking lives...

23 Mar The 6-Foot Mandate Was Bad Science

Posted at 20:54h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

On March 19th the Centers for Disease Control issued a press release detailing changes to its operational strategy for K-12 students. It stated that among other things, students may now reduce their social distancing from 6 feet to 3 feet. The release begins as follows, “The...

23 Mar The Miseducation of America’s Elites

Posted at 10:37h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls. They are usually coordinating soccer practices and carpools, but now they come together to strategize. They say that they could face profound repercussions if anyone knew they were...